Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola has been named on America’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2025 list by Newsweek. This is the fifth year in a row the hospital has earned this distinction.‘The Best Maternity Care distinction recognizes facilities that have provided exceptional care to mothers, newborns and their families based on three data sources. These include nationwide online surveys of hospital managers and maternity healthcare professionals, medical key performance indicators relevant to maternity care and patient satisfaction data.
“Here at Sacred Heart Pensacola, we are committed to helping families every step of their care journey,” said Sacred Heart Pensacola President & CEO Will Condon. “We are honored that our compassionate care is being recognized.”
Sacred Heart Pensacola currently utilizes multiple approaches to improve healthcare insecurity for mothers and infants. The Women’s Care Center team is addressing key obstacles to care such as transportation, insurance, financial resources and child care. Maternal health navigators who identify maternal patients finding difficulty in these barrier areas have a number of tools available to alleviate them including: coordinating with rideshare services to help patients get to their appointments, providing pack-n-plays for safe sleeping habits and offering iron-rich food and education bags.
The Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart has the region’s only Level III NICU – delivering advanced care for preterm and critically sick babies, and holds the Baby-Friendly designation in recognition of its commitment to the highest level of breastfeeding support and education.
Sacred Heart Pensacola was also named one of the best maternity care hospitals for 2025 by U.S. News and World Report as part of their annual maternity care report. Sacred Heart is one of only roughly 400 hospitals in the country to earn that distinction.
Sacred Heart’s facilities in Pensacola and Miramar Beach have also helped lead the state’s first postpartum wristband initiative. The new program involves giving a silver rubber wristband to mothersto voluntarily wear for up to a year postpartum. This has helped prioritize them as patients and spotlight their medical history when they seek care through EMS, ERs or other medical sites.
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About Ascension Sacred Heart
Ascension Sacred Heart, based in Pensacola, Florida, operates five hospitals and more than 100 other sites of care and employs more than 6,440 associates. In fiscal year 2024, Ascension Sacred Heart provided more than $193 million in community benefit and other care for vulnerable persons. Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable.
